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A crunch meeting between the Ministry of Communications, the National Communications Authority (NCA), on one hand, and the chief executive officers of the mobile network operators (MNOs) has been scheduled for today.

The meeting, which will also be attended by the chief operating officers of the telcos, is expected to discuss, among other things, the refusal of the MNOs to physically affix their systems to the common platform (CMP) meant to monitor international and domestic voice and data traffic volumes, revenue and mobile money transactions in an independent way.

As of the close of the deadline issued by the sector minister for all MNOS to comply with the directive to connect to the common platform, none of the members of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber had complied, citing a court injunction slapped on the contract, which mandates Kelni GVG to undertake monitoring on behalf of the NCA.

A highly place, source at the NCA told the Daily Graphic that there were attempts by the contractor to have the MNOs connect to the platform but “when they were shown the writ, they had to turn away”.

The source said the meeting was necessary to chart a way forward to avoid what seemed to be turning into a turf-war between the MNOs and the ministry.

Meanwhile, some industry watchers have asked the government to soften its stance and continue the engagements with the MNOs to find an amicable solution to the impasse.

According to them, the issue of directives and deadlines, among other threats, were not the right way to go because such an approach would trigger series of legal suits that would rather delay the implementation of the contract.